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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

No, really, I swear, that's the shape of the windows. And the fireplace. I did too build them the right size! You and all your fancy "Plan before you build" ideas. Pffft. I can wing it. Carpentry's mostly about guesswork, anyway.

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I have to admit, I have considered doing this to my windows in the basement. The bottom shutters are supposed to be kept CLOSED. Then we are fooled into thinking it's a much bigger window and psychologically we are lifted up in the joy of having big windows that would bring in buckets of sunshine if we ever chose to open those bottom shutters. Well, in theory, anyway.

I think that, for once, the real estate agent made a good call in the way the windows were photographed. Just reveal the fact that the windows are actually quite small, and the window treatment was added to make them appear larger (uh, nice try). Otherwise you are going to end up with a ton of people coming to see the place (big lot, house is in pretty good shape, if you don't mind removing wallpaper and prying off mantles) and complaining their heads off about the faux full windows.

I get the windows - it's a way to fake a bigger window thus opening up your room and making it look bigger as well but you're supposed to leave the bottom part of the plantation shutter closed and put light colors behind it. Heck, if you're trying to make your windows look larger, you probably need stay away from dark colors all together.

I don't get the fireplace. I have no speculation at all as to why someone would build such a big mantle uncentered over a itty-bitty fireplace.

Okay, I could help screaming WTF! over and over at the shutters. But when we got to the fireplace, suddenly it all made sense. It's a surreal house. It's SUPPOSED to be this way. Then you put a picture next to the fireplace. Or a bar.

I almost want it, just for irony. And you'll always have a garden in your window. ANd on your walls...

Anon, now that you mention it, there is something odd going on the first and the twelfth picture appear to be of either the back door, or the front door with a path leading up to it. At first glance I thought they were photos taken during different seasons, showing a flowering shrub in bloom, and then not in bloom.

The more I look at the one with the blooms, the more it looks like it was photoshopped in with some kind of decorative fern. Which...okay, but why have the before and after of the same shot?

This one is easy! The windows are wallpapered so you don't have to wear pants, but can still get natural light and not scare the neighbors. The mantle is elongated so you can get a bigger flat screen tv up there with out it hanging over the edge!

It would have been smarter to put mirrors instead of wallpaper in the faux lower windows to better cast light even with the shutters closed. The RE was correct to photograph the windows like that as to not mislead people that the windows were full height.